Leigh Nash

Leigh Nash first rose to prominence as the delicate frontwoman whose ethereal vocals defined Sixpence None the Richer, the contemporary Christian band that broke through to mainstream audiences in 1999 via the single “Kiss Me.” She formed the group at fourteen alongside her schoolmate Matt Slocum. Roughly thirteen years later, when Nash turned twenty-seven, the ensemble disbanded amicably. Even before that split, she had repeatedly imagined stepping out on her own once the collective no longer existed. Although the separation initially left her unsettled, she recognized the moment had arrived to chart a different course, so she and her husband relocated from Nashville to Los Angeles. Shortly afterward she gave birth to a son. That chapter drew her back toward the Christian and country sounds of her upbringing, even as she kept her pop sensibilities intact. Those early influences had come from country legends Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Tanya Tucker, whose songs she once learned on guitar well before Sixpence None the Richer existed. Motherhood supplied fresh creative fuel, leading her to record Blue on Blue and return to Nashville, where she joined Movement Nashville, a newly established collective intent on overturning the assumption that the city’s music community produced only country and Christian fare. Blue on Blue appeared in August 2006.